"Saving RAM to..." for over an hour and counting [SOLVED]
"Saving RAM to..." for over an hour and counting [SOLVED]
Hello all, I'm running precise Puppy 5.7.1 and have a question about "Saving RAM to..." I normally use Chromium as my browser, but today I was having trouble logging into an online game I play, so I decided to try using Firefox. When I loaded FF, I got a message that Firefox had been updated. Didn't think much of it, used Firefox for a while and the normal orange box that says the RAM is being saved to the save file on my USB drive popped up. It's still saving more than an hour later. Far longer than it's ever gone before. I was wondering if this was normal after a browser update, or has something frozen? Any advice would be appreciated.
Last edited by Haselrig on Mon 01 Sep 2014, 15:27, edited 1 time in total.
Hate to be the one to brake this to you, but a system freeze while the system is writing the safe-file, will almost certainly make your safe-file unusable.
So, just to be clear, your screen has frozen, and there is nothing you can do anymore, right?!
I mean, you are no longer able to open any other programs or open a terminal, correct?!
Because if you are still able to open programs, you may want to go to your System menu, and open Htop to take a look at which processes your system is running at the moment.
So, just to be clear, your screen has frozen, and there is nothing you can do anymore, right?!
I mean, you are no longer able to open any other programs or open a terminal, correct?!
Because if you are still able to open programs, you may want to go to your System menu, and open Htop to take a look at which processes your system is running at the moment.
I've experienced problems like this, and there were about the browser's cahe filling up the savefile.
It's necesary to tell the browser to put the cache outside the savefile, for example in /mnt/home/cache (you will have to create the folder cache in /mnt/home).
And yes perhaps your savefile it's unusuable.
Always have a copy of it as a back up.
It's necesary to tell the browser to put the cache outside the savefile, for example in /mnt/home/cache (you will have to create the folder cache in /mnt/home).
And yes perhaps your savefile it's unusuable.
Always have a copy of it as a back up.
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Just the notification of "Saving RAM to..." was frozen. Everything else was working normally. There was a process that seemed to refer the save. I tried restarting X with no luck. Ended up being a choice between trying to kill the process or shutting down the computer. Ultimately, I did a hard power off by holding the power button until the system shut down. I restarted the computer, inserted the disc as I normally do. It booted with an additional line about the savefile that isn't normally there. System booted normally from there. Nothing seemed different or weird. I hit "Save" to see if the save RAM to would work, it went for a second or two and blinked off as usual. I shut down the system and rebooted it again, it booted normally and seems to be working normally. Just had a "Saving RAM to..." notification and it went off after a few seconds, Maybe I dodged a bullet?
Right for what we're talking about:
- Open Rox filemanager by clicking the Archive icon in the desktop.
- Click Up til you are in / (that is the root directory)
-Go to /mnt/home
-Right click in an empty place, then New >> Directory >> name it: cache
Now to tell Firefox where to put the cache:
-Launch Firefox and in a new tab type as the address
-Accep the advert.
-Right click in an empty place: New >> String and type this
and the value for the string is: /mnt/home/cache
Restart Firefox and ready.
Note that this is valid for Firefox or derivatives, for other browsers is different, search with Google.
- Open Rox filemanager by clicking the Archive icon in the desktop.
- Click Up til you are in / (that is the root directory)
-Go to /mnt/home
-Right click in an empty place, then New >> Directory >> name it: cache
Now to tell Firefox where to put the cache:
-Launch Firefox and in a new tab type as the address
Code: Select all
about:config
-Right click in an empty place: New >> String and type this
Code: Select all
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
Restart Firefox and ready.
Note that this is valid for Firefox or derivatives, for other browsers is different, search with Google.
Remember: [b][i]"pecunia pecuniam parere non potest"[/i][/b]
- neerajkolte
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Hello everyone,
When using portable firefox app, like @shinobar's one.
Do we need to do what Galbi suggests or it's not necessary. I mean do portable apps save cache files in it's own directory or in savefile.
Thanks.
- Neeraj.
When using portable firefox app, like @shinobar's one.
Do we need to do what Galbi suggests or it's not necessary. I mean do portable apps save cache files in it's own directory or in savefile.
Thanks.
- Neeraj.
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Hmm. That was really the only issue I've had in a long while. This version of Puppy has been shockingly smooth for me. All of the earlier versions had things that wouldn't work or were a bit flaky on my system. Precise has been a real life saver.
I might poke around and see what I can do with WINE. Always wanted to tackle some Windows stuff on here.
I might poke around and see what I can do with WINE. Always wanted to tackle some Windows stuff on here.